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I guess this makes The Lord of the Rings a contact sport.

Umm.. Family Guy did this joke first. FAIL!

"Gollum? GOLLUM? Can you please go see to any new guests while I clean up this mess?"

A clever shirt premise alone, but the title made me literally laugh out-loud. LOL, you guys, for real.

He may have to go to his back-up monocle.

I can't help but think of the gag from Family Guy where Sauron lost his contact lens....like this shirt.

Funny shirt and a good joke. Unfortunately everyone will mark you a rabid Family Guy fan for wearing this shirt.

Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB9ib7Wbh3Q

Getting warmer...warmer...

nerdgasum alert!

Some nice textures on this one for sure. The rocky terrain in the foreground and the volcano smoke are particularly great-- I could definitely learn something from Tony and Jason's techniques.

Much like Sam doesn't get Sauron, I don't get this shirt. What's with the bowl and those letters or whatever it is that The Eye is messing with?

Edit: oh, I see now, it's a contact lens. Hmph, guess I should get my own prescription adjusted...

Does Woot pull shirts for plagiarism when the joke is ripped off but the design is original? Guess we'll know soon!

’Ainu.’ That’s not all that helpful, really.

Are you saying Sauron is Japanese?

As others have said, it's been done before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFi1Dl4Iizg

Was going to link the YouTube Family Guy clip, but deleted because too many people beat me to it. Damn you all and your superior Google-fu!

Best. Color. Description. Ever.

It's tag team on the art week. Nice flame colors. But not going to get buddy buddy with the eye; saw where that got Saruman.

num1zero wrote:Umm.. Family Guy did this joke first. FAIL!

Agreed HUGE fail on this one! I know you are allowed to use intellectual property if you make it a parody... What about a parody of a parody?!!?!

That eye really looks inflamed. Try some Visine.

Oi, the puns in the write up should qualify as a crime.

The Eye of Sauron never did have any depth perception...

almsforoblivion wrote:Best. Color. Description. Ever.

+1

This is the whole reason I got Lasik surgery.

lol! I just saw sam, frodo and gollum sneaking! Totally missed that at first.

tbwulf wrote:Oi, the puns in the write up should qualify as a crime.

Yes, they should be punished.

Cute shirt, but I totally didn't get it right away. Looked like Sauron had tripped and was hurrying to put ice back in his bowl.

Meh, the other shirt with the Eye of Sauron & the One Ring dancing along is far superior. This one is just a rehash of a Family Guy joke.

Not sure how this made it through to get produced.

meh, good concept (if it wasn't already used by family guy) but poor execution. I had to read the comments to figure out what was going on.

"Ugh! These lenses are all scratchy!"

Actually, for those of you wondering, Sauron was merely a servant of a greater evil force. However, it was indeed Sauron who created the corrupted rings of power. All this is described in greater detail in The Silmarillion.

flexes nerd muscle

i know the joke is years behind the shirt but,
Q: do you know who CAN simply walk into mordor?
A: LEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JENKINNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

PLEASE someone tell me this reminds them of either of these commercials.

What a coincidence! This shirt comes out on the same day I'm wearing another LOTR shirt from shirt.woot: http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=13218

That contact appears to be causing itchy, burning eyes.

The "we call this color" is especially brilliant tonight. I love you guys.

Bares a very scary resemblance to a hated final boss from Kirby and the Amazing Mirror...spoilers[who needs spoilers in a Kirby game?]...Dark Mind 2!

Lord of the Rings? What? Never heard of it.

hey, what is this!?
Are all daily shirts just a cross promotional tool for Kids.woot?
I bet that gold highlight on the sneaking Frodo is actually a C3-PO lego watch as well

not my favorite shirt design by a long shot, but as a tolkien fan, this write-up was one of the funniest i've seen in a long time.

Also: Sauren is a Maiar. You can call him a spirit, if you will, but he was only a spirit back before the world was created. Once in the physical world, both Maiar and Valar (the more powerful and more rare 'spirits' or 'gods') chose physical forms. Gandalf is also a Maiar, as are Sauruman and all the Balrogs (there used to be many, many more). Sauron just so happens to be one of the most powerful Maiar spirits, since he was the top officer of the Baddest Bad Guy ever, named Morgoth, who happened to be a Valar- and the MOST POWERFUL valar, at that. The story of defeating him took tens of thousands of years and is told in the book The Silmarillion, which in my mind is at least as good as the LOTR.